RHEL 7

How to Deploy a Node.js Application with PM2 on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Node.js Application with PM2 on RHEL 7

How to Deploy a Node.js Application with PM2 on RHEL 7 PM2 is a battle-tested production process manager for Node.js applications. It keeps your application running after a crash by restarting it automatically, provides integrated logging, enables zero-downtime reloads, supports cluster mode to utilize all CPU cores, and integrates with systemd for startup on boot. […]

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How to Manage Node.js Versions with NVM on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Node.js Versions with NVM on RHEL 7

How to Manage Node.js Versions with NVM on RHEL 7 Managing Node.js versions is one of the most common challenges for developers and system administrators working with JavaScript applications. Different projects often require different Node.js versions—a legacy application might target Node.js 14 while a new microservice targets Node.js 20. Upgrading the system-wide Node.js installation to […]

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How to Install Node.js on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Node.js on RHEL 7

How to Install Node.js on RHEL 7 Node.js is a server-side JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 engine. It is widely used for building REST APIs, real-time applications, microservices, and command-line tooling. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 does not ship a recent version of Node.js in its default repositories, so several installation methods are available […]

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How to Install Jupyter Notebook on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Jupyter Notebook on RHEL 7

How to Install Jupyter Notebook on RHEL 7 Jupyter Notebook is a browser-based interactive computing environment used extensively in data science, machine learning, and scientific research. It allows you to write Python code, run it in cells, visualize data inline, and document your analysis—all in one place. This guide covers two installation methods on Red […]

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How to Deploy a Flask Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Flask Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7

How to Deploy a Flask Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7 Flask is a lightweight Python web framework ideal for building APIs and web applications. While Flask’s built-in development server is useful for testing, it is not suitable for production workloads. The standard production stack on RHEL 7 combines Gunicorn as a WSGI […]

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How to Deploy a Django Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Django Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7

How to Deploy a Django Application with Gunicorn and Nginx on RHEL 7 Django’s built-in development server is single-threaded, outputs detailed error tracebacks to the browser, and is explicitly documented as unsuitable for production. The standard production deployment for Django on Linux is a two-layer stack: Gunicorn (a Python WSGI HTTP server) handles the Python […]

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How to Use Python Virtual Environments on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Python Virtual Environments on RHEL 7

How to Use Python Virtual Environments on RHEL 7 When you install Python packages system-wide with pip3, every project on the server shares the same set of libraries. This creates an immediate problem: Project A requires Flask 1.1 while Project B requires Flask 2.3, and only one version can occupy the global site-packages directory at […]

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How to Install Python 3 and pip on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Python 3 and pip on RHEL 7

How to Install Python 3 and pip on RHEL 7 RHEL 7 ships with Python 2.7 as the system default, and that version is deeply embedded in system utilities such as yum itself. Replacing or removing the system Python will break critical OS tooling, so the correct approach on RHEL 7 is to install Python […]

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How to Install Xdebug for PHP on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Xdebug for PHP on RHEL 7

How to Install Xdebug for PHP on RHEL 7 Xdebug is the de facto debugging and profiling extension for PHP. It transforms PHP development from a cycle of var_dump() statements into a proper interactive debugging experience: you can set breakpoints, step through code line by line, inspect variable values at runtime, and generate detailed execution […]

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How to Harden PHP on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden PHP on RHEL 7

How to Harden PHP on RHEL 7 PHP is one of the most widely deployed server-side languages in the world, and its default configuration is designed for convenience rather than security. On a production RHEL 7 server, leaving PHP at its defaults exposes your system to information disclosure, remote file inclusion, code injection, and privilege […]

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